The Greens have crashed brutally in the European elections. In Germany, their share of the vote has almost halved and in France, at 5 per cent, it has even fallen to almost a third of the 2019 figure. Anyone who believes that this is the end of the previous type of commitment to climate policy in Europe is right; …
After all, eight years after the Paris Agreement, most of the world has now realised that there is a problem with fossil fuel producers. The conference known as COP 28, which has just ended in a country that lives more than almost any other from oil and gas production, …
It was bound to happen. Because German and European politicians persistently refuse to think for even a second before acting, they are now marching with a loud trumpet into nowhere when it comes to climate. A ban on combustion cars in 2035, …
(Published in the “Berliner Zeitung” today in German)
The German government goes on long trips with unusual frequency. The Chancellor was in three countries in Africa last May, the Chancellor visited three important countries in South America a few weeks ago and Finance Minister Lindner was in Africa recently. …
